What do Medusababies eat?

[SteelDraco]

In previous editions they ate meat. There was a male medusa equivalent called a maedar that could shatter petrified victims and then turn them back to flesh, which the lovely couple would then eat. Presumably they had no qualms about eating people.

As a baby, I'd say they would eat mostly meat in tiny pieces. I can picture the snake heads squabbling over the bits. If offered milk like a human baby I'd have the thing bite at fingers and refuse the milk. Maybe it'd take milk with poison in it, like dear old mum.

 

[Dordledum]

In previous editions they ate meat. There was a male medusa equivalent called a maedar that could shatter petrified victims and then turn them back to flesh, which the lovely couple would then eat. Presumably they had no qualms about eating people.

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That's exactly what I just found, Dragon magazine 106 has "the ecology of the maedar" in it, I guess that was 2nd edition.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

Maybe it'd take milk with poison in it, like dear old mum.

Like the kind Abraham Lincoln sold to school children!

 

[Dordledum]

greek mythology and 2nd edition D&D seem to agree that medusae eat human flesh, interesting indeed.

 

[frankthedm]

Alignment wise, medusa are only as predisposed to Law and Evil as elves are to Chaos and Good. So if players care about alignment, keep that in mind before disposing of the helpless, though potentially dangerous, infant.

She would make a wonderful guard if the game setting has a cloister of blind monks or a sanctuary for those who have lost their eyes.

 

[Filcher]

It's a baby. No teeth. The PCs will need to pre-chew the human flesh and spoon it into the baby's maw.

 

[MarkB]

Short-circuit the problem entirely by equipping the baby with a Ring of Sustenance. Use Sovereign Glue to ensure it doesn't get misplaced or swallowed.

 

[Alzrius]

Short-circuit the problem entirely by equipping the baby with a Ring of Sustenance. Use Sovereign Glue to ensure it doesn't get misplaced or swallowed.

A baby that only sleeps two hours every night - every parent's dream!

 

[Corathon]

Medusas have breasts, so I'd say that their babies nurse - until old enough to start a diet of meat.

 

[Aeolius]

Medusas have breasts, so I'd say that their babies nurse - until old enough to start a diet of meat.

Perhaps the young medusa can subsist on a diet of gorgon milk and cockatrice eggs, until old enough to eat meat created by a Stone to Flesh spell.